RE: bad installation ?

2005-03-09 Thread Phil Betts
On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:23 PM, Banibrata Dutta wrote: Could anybody explain the following behaviour or Cygwin and startx in Cygwin... capture Your group is currently mkpasswd. This indicates that the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. See the man

Re: eclipse 3.0.1 input problem

2005-03-09 Thread Mike Starbuck
no --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Mike Starbuck wrote: hello, i have installed cygwin-xfree on my windows xp laptop successfully i think. at least i am able to ssh to a remote linux host and run xemacs. i see the xemacs window frame appear on

Re: eclipse 3.0.1 input problem

2005-03-09 Thread Alexey N. Solofnenko
I have had strange crashes during input, but now with 6.8.2 everything works fine. What version of xwin you are running? - Alexey. Mike Starbuck wrote: hello, i have installed cygwin-xfree on my windows xp laptop successfully i think. at least i am able to ssh to a remote linux host and run

Re: eclipse 3.0.1 input problem

2005-03-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Mike Starbuck wrote: no What does xev report on keypress? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-09 Thread Joseph Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently received a list entitled 30+ Reasons Why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X. I don't know enough at the moment (though I am learning) about the Cygwin/X server to be able to understand some of the reasons. I have already created XWinLogon

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-09 Thread Ken Dibble
I know nothing about X other than it is a good tool for some of the things that I do. I do not know if the following is of interest or not. When the codebase was changed from Xfree86 to Xorg, the Mac-on-Linux video driver for Cygwin/X no longer worked. I have been using X-Deep/32 for X usage

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:19:18PM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: I recently received a list entitled 30+ Reasons Why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X. I don't know enough at the moment (though I am learning) about the Cygwin/X server to be able to understand some of the reasons. I have already

RE: bad installation ?

2005-03-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
Well, Phil, I read what she posted, and I do NOT think it tells all Banibrata needs to know. The big unanswered question that is probably still bothering Banibrata is, how on earth did the group get to be 'mkpasswd' in the first place? I very much doubt that Banibrata set it to that. And I have